Feliks Topolski & The Festival of Britain

Feliks Topolski was a prolific expressionist painter and draughtsman who also worked as an official war artist during World War II. Later he travelled the world sharing reportage illustrations and in addition to painting canvases, he also worked as a theatre set designer.

Throughout his career, he worked from a studio in a railway arch below Hungerford Bridge, a space that is now maintained as an archive and artist studio space, and which opens regularly for art classes and pop-up exhibitions.

Coinciding with the 75th birthday weekend of the Southbank Centre, the studio will be opening its doors to present an exhibition about Topolski's 'Cavalcade of the Commonwealth', a 60x20ft mural work that was commissioned for the 1951 Festival of Britain that transformed the South Bank.
 
On Sat 2 May visitors can get an introduction to Topolski's work with his nephew and archivist Lucien Topolski (at 12pm and 2pm), and meet the studio's artist in residence Alice Angus. 

On Sat 3 May the studio will also be open from 12pm-4pm with the chance to see some of Topolski's reportage work and learn more about his astonishing life and career with archivist Cecilia Borgenstam.

Entrance is free